Support for Erdoğan in older communities among Europe’s 3.4 million Turkish voters is strong, while younger people want change in Kılıçdaroğlu
Casting her ballot at the Turkish consulate in Berlin for Sunday’s second round runoff in Turkey’s presidential elections, Cansu Yeni said she and her country faced a make-or-break moment.
“You live abroad, you’re not much affected by what’s going on at home, yet you feel closer to it than to your adopted country – the temptation is to vote for someone who flatters your religious and national identity,”On a recent day in the tree-lined grounds of the consulate in western Berlin, those who were eligible to vote at one of the 17 polling stations across Germany, were being ushered into booths. A man with a megaphone directed the crowds.
Throughout the morning, a stream of shuttle buses and minivans pulled up in front of the consulate discharging voters from Berlin and other parts of Germany. In the courtyard the atmosphere was mostly upbeat, with people greeting and hugging each other, though sporadic scuffles broke out. Gülden, 31, a retail worker who declined to give her surname, said she had come to “support our president”.
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